Sugino Jippeiji Tsugifusa and Hayami Tozaemon Mitsutaka
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Art of Japan
A print depicting the loyal retainers Sugino Jippeiji Tsugifusa and Hayami Tozaemon Mitsutaka from the Chushingura cycle — two of the forty-seven ronin whose vendetta on behalf of their dead master remains Japan's most celebrated story of samurai loyalty. Kyosai's double portrait format, used throughout the Chushingura series, gives each pair of retainers both individual dignity and compositional unity, suggesting the bonds of shared resolve that held the conspiracy together across the years of patient planning.
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
c. 1828/30
Color woodblock print; surimono
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Sugino Jippeiji Tsugifusa and Hayami Tozaemon Mitsutaka was created by Kawanabe Kyosai (河鍋暁斎).
Sugino Jippeiji Tsugifusa and Hayami Tozaemon Mitsutaka depicts warriors and portraits.